There were almost 100 of attendees from various fields such as investors, large companies, researchers, startups, and VCs. Pleasantly many of the participants from different fields had communicated during the networking time.

We would like to appreciate the guest speakers Mr, Noda from Intel, Tim S from Artisense corp, Masayuki Ishizaki from Ascent Robotics Inc and Sampo Hietanen from MaaS Global.

【The detail of the guest speakers】

He is currently working about integrate artificial intelligence into Vehicle.

Mr, Nobe Graduated from Harvard Business School and is Harvard PIRP fellow. He had worked for Nissan as Chief Service Architect and Program Director and presently a visiting associate professor of Nagoya University.

Ascent Robotics builds end-to-end AIs for robotic systems. It is a reinforcement learning robotics startup. Ascent Robotics is developing complex multi-task AI agents for autonomous robotic systems. Ascent is a Japanese startup conducting research in deep reinforcement learning to solve general intelligence in mobility. They believe it is possible to create intelligent agents that can learn large sets of tasks and complex reward planning to solve the most demanding real-world requirements. They are achieving this by creating a new class of research environments, unique algorithmic approaches, and scalable computation

MaaS Global Oy is bringing into reality the concept of Mobility as a Service (MaaS), by building the world’s first mobility ecosystem. MaaS Global aspires to upgrade the service level of transportation by joining together public and private transportation providers. Collaboration and integration of services will create a seamless and compelling travel experience for everyone, locally and globally.